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About Mamta Banerjee

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Mamta Banerjee

Party

Trinamool Congress

Constituency

Kolkata

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Mamata Banerjee also known as Didi, born 5 January 1955) is a poet,painter,miscellanist and an Indian politician who has been the 8th Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011. She is the first woman to hold the office. She founded the party All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC or TMC) in 1997 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its chairperson.She is often referred to as Didi (meaning: elder sister in Hindi and Bengali).
Banerjee previously twice served as the Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so.She is also the first female Minister of Coal, and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Youth Affairs, Sports, Women and Child Development in the cabinet of the Indian government.She rose to prominence after opposing the erstwhile land acquisition policies for industrialisation of the Communist government in West Bengal for Special Economic Zones at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers at Singur.In 2011 Banerjee pulled off a landslide victory for the TMC Congress alliance in West Bengal, defeating the 34-year-old Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government, the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the process.
In 2012, Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.Bloomberg Markets magazine listed her among the 50 most influential people in the world of finance in September 2012.

Mamata Banerjee personal background

Mamata Banerjee was born on 5 January 1955 in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta), West Bengal, to a lower-middle-class Bengali family. Her father was Promileswar Banerjee and her mother was Smt. Gayatri Devi. She lost her father at the age of nine. She graduated in history from Jogomaya Devi College in Kolkata and also earned a master’s in Islamic History from Calcutta University. Banerjee has a degree in Education from Kolkata’s Shri Shikshayatan College and a law degree from Kolkata’s Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College. She is not married. Her artistic passion unfolds in self-taught painting and poetry. Her favourite pastimes include reading, writing and listening to music.

How did Mamata Banerjee enter politics?

Mamata Banerjee’s entry into politics was at a young age when she was still in school. She joined the Congress (I) Party in the state and served in different posts both within the party and other political groups. Her rise up the political ladder in the 1970s was quick and she was made the Mahila Congress General Secretary from 1976 to 1980.

Political Journey of Mamata Banerjee

1976 - 1980: General Secretary of Mahila Congress (I) in West Bengal

1978-1981: Secretary of the District Congress Committee (Indira) of Calcutta South

1984: Elected as a member of the 8th Lok Sabha. Also became the General Secretary of the All India Youth Congress (I).

1985-1987: Member of the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes

1987-1988: Member of Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, National Council of All India Youth Congress (I), Consultative Committee on Ministry of Home Affairs

1988: Executive Committee Member of the Congress Parliamentary Party

1989: Executive Committee Member of the Pradesh Congress Committee of the state

1990: West Bengal’s Youth Congress President

1991: Member of the 10th Lok Sabha (her second election to the LS)

1991-1993: Union Minister of State for Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Human Resource Development, Women and Child Development

1993-1996: Member of the Committee on Home Affairs

1995-1996: Member of Committee on Public Accounts, Consultative Committee Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs

1996: Elected as a member of the 11th Lok Sabha (third time)

1996-1997:Member of Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Committee on Home Affairs

1997: Founded the All India Trinamool Congress and became its Chairperson

1998: Re-elected as a member of the 12th Lok Sabha (fourth time)

1998 – 1999: Chairperson of the Committee on Railways, Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee, Member of the General Purposes Committee

1998 – 1999: Chairperson of the Committee on Railways, Member of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Consultative Committee, Member of the General Purposes Committee

1999: Elected as member of the 13th Lok Sabha (fifth time); Appointed as Member of General Purposes Committee; Leader of the All India Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha

13 October 1999-16 March 2001: Union Cabinet Minister of Railways

2001-2003: Consultative Committee Member of the Ministry of Industries

8 September 2003-8 January 2004: Union Cabinet Minister but without any portfolio

9 January 2004-May 2004: Union Cabinet Minister of Coal & Mines

2004: Elected as a member of the 14th Lok Sabha for the sixth time. Also became a Member of Committee on Law & Justice, Public Grievances and Personnel.

5 August 2006: Member of Home Affairs Committee

2009: Elected as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha (seventh time)

31 May 2009-19 July 2011: Union Cabinet Minister for Railways; Leader of All India Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha of the Parliament

9 October 2011: Resigned from membership of the 15th Lok Sabha

20 May 2011: Became the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal.

19 May 2016: She became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the second consecutive time.

Activities and Achievements of Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee successfully formed a new party after separating from the Congress in 1997. The new party, All India Trinamool Congress, subsequently, became the primary opposition party in West Bengal led by the CPI(M).
In 2002, after becoming the Railway Minister, she introduced new trains, made extension of a few express train services, increased frequency of some trains aimed at developing tourism and also proposed the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation.
She actively protested on 20 October 2005 against forcible land acquisition of farmers and agriculturists for industrialization in West Bengal by the then Left Front government led by Buddhadev Bhattacharya.
She introduced several non-stop Duronto Express trains that connected major cities, other passenger trains and ladies-special trains during her second term as Railway Minister, from 31 May 2009 to 19 July 2011.
The alliance of All India Trinamool Congress, the Indian National Congress and SUCI won 227 seats (TMC -184, INC – 42, SUCI – 1) in the 2011 Legislative Assembly Elections of West Bengal, resulting in a washout of the Left Front.
On 20 May 2011, she became the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal marking the end of the 34-year-long Left Front government.

Represented India in the U.N. General Assembly

Represented the nation at the World Women Round Table Conference held at Russia as a woman parliamentarian.

Attended World Youth Conference at Vietnam as a representative of India.

Attended the Working Women Conference of ICFTU and ILO held at Kuala Lumpur.

Observed dharna for 21 days in 1991 to restore human rights.

Observed protests against deaths in lock-ups and atrocities on women in India, particularly in West Bengal.

Mamata Banerjee is also credited with taking initiative to solve the longstanding Gorkhaland problem. On 2 September 2011, a semi-autonomous body called the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) was formed to administer Darjeeling. The GTA has financial, administrative and executive power, excluding legislative powers.

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